Louis van Gaal stood his ground on Sunday amid growing speculation his time as Manchester United manager will be ended early.
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The main reservation that die hard fans of Manchester United are likely to have against Jose Mourinho is that he is often understood to be a defensive manager.
Hiddink thinks even Pep Guardiola will find it hard to change the mindset of English football when Bayern Munich’s ex-Barcelona player and coach takes over from Manuel Pellegrini at Manchester City in the summer.
Reflecting on his most recent stint at Chelsea, which ended just six months after being crowned Premier League champions at the end of the 2014-15 season, Mourinho suggested complacency was the reason for the club’s horror start to the campaign. That’s why this league is very important. The three-time Premier League victor even told Jason Barlow of GQ Magazine how he intends to be back in management soon, also indicating he’ll still work in England.
The pressure on van Gaal has intensified since United suffered an embarrassing exit from the Champions League at the group stage.
The Dutch manager, meanwhile, blasted a journalist for claiming he is to be sacked and replaced by Jose Mourinho.
“For me there’s been a lack of spark and this is coming from either the manager or the players, they have to lift themselves and try to reach the goal which is to give pleasure to the fans and win trophies”.
“To be fully happy I need everything, so I go back to football”.
Even in football, which is an area in which I feel I am an expert, I am never ideal and I will always learn.
He has hinted at a job in England after stating his family home will remain in London. Then we did not keep the ball in the way I think we have to.
“I see a lot of midfielders at Manchester United obsessed with possession and retaining the ball, but if you can do things quickly, do it”.
Jesse Lingard’s goal looked to have earned United a first win over Chelsea since October 2012, but Costa capitalised on Daley Blind’s stoppage-time error to tuck in his seventh goal in nine games.
“Leicester running away and us playing them next week, (makes) the game interesting”, Wenger said. I can have my family, I can have my friends, I can have my quiet life, which I also like, and I can have my football…
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“[It is] easy to win matches [in Spain] but hard to win the league because you are competing against a team that wins and wins and wins like you do, because there are two monsters together”.
